The Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC), in 2002, created Standards for Advanced Preparation Programs in Educational Leadership. The purposes of this study, using Texas superintendents, were to: (1) design ...

Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells of the immune system with the ability to induce and control T and B cells responses. Monocytes have been used as precursors to generate DC vaccines ex vivo. ...

Oil and gas wells rely upon long steel pipes, known as casing, that run down the
depth of the well. During drilling, a section of pipe is cemented in place and another section
of casing is run inside, repeating this ...

The first immensely popular composer of Viennese operetta was Johann Strauss. Later composers, including Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz, became famous and wealthy for continuing the traditions of the genre as codified by ...

We develop a system of canonical reduced decompositions of minimal coset representatives of quotients corresponding to cominuscule flag varieties and affine Grassmannians. This canonical decomposition allows, in the first ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences existed among generations (Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y) regarding the levels of parental involvement within each of these generations. Also ...

It has been suggested that the human experience is an increasingly globalized one in which people have multiple cross-cultural exchanges or interactions. Given the growing the global interdependence and awareness of common ...

This thesis examines the historical context, ideological traditions, and structures of power that have animated relations between Israeli Jews and Arab Palestinians during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cognizant ...

This thesis is a record of the Fall 2007 production of Arthur Miller’s play, All My Sons, as directed by Graham Northrup. Chapter One seeks to contextualize the play by presenting a brief professional biography of Miller ...

This thesis examines the production process of the 2010 Baylor University Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull from the perspective of the director. This production highlighted the themes of art, love, and ...

Donald Margulies's meta-theatrical script presents an imagined performance by the real-life 19th-century figure Louis de Rougemont, a man made famous by his memoir detailing his adventures at sea and while shipwrecked on ...

This thesis explores a production of Euripides’ Hecuba as it was directed by Christopher Peck. Chapter One articulates a unique Euripidean dramatic structure to demonstrate the contemporary viability of Euripides’ play. ...

Garson Kanin’s 1945 play, Born Yesterday, depicts the transformation of a former chorus girl from an ignorant young “lady” into an educated and cultured “woman”. A Director’s Approach to Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday ...

This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Jamie Pachino's play, Waving Goodbye, followed by a detailed description of Daniel Inouye's directorial approach to the work in Baylor University’s production which ran from ...

This thesis concerns the Baylor University Theatre production of Schoolhouse Rock Live!, as directed by Meredith Sutton. Chapter One provides the history of the creation of the Schoolhouse Rock franchise, the development ...

This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Steven Martin’s play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, followed by a detailed description of Rebekah Baker’s directorial approach to the work in Baylor University’s production, which ...

This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Tom Stoppard’s play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, followed by a detailed description of Martin Holden’s directorial approach to the work in Baylor University’s production, ...

American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher continues his practice of adapting well
known works of literature for the stage with his 2008 play, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
This thesis considers the play within Hatcher’s cannon and ...

Rinne Groff’s The Ruby Sunrise tells the story of a poor, self-educated girl who creates the first electric television set in 1927. Her accomplishment goes unnoticed, but twenty-five years later her daughter stops at ...